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1594-03-12 - Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies1619-06-02 - England & Netherlands sign treaty about business in the Indies1784-01-07 - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia1824-11-16 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business1826-11-15 - Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura1844-12-21 - The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.1861-04-16 - US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states (US Civil War)1872-10-09 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business1882-10-16 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.1885-11-03 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses1898-10-01 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.1899-04-01 - NC Mutual opens doors for business1900-08-23 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)1904-10-19 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.1905-12-16 - "Variety" covering all phases of show business, 1st published1906-04-07 - Act of Algeciras drawn between Moroccan police & banking businessFinancier and Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr1910-03-03 - Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist1919-11-11 - Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views1922-05-29 - US Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport & not a business & thus not subject to antitrust laws1923-07-11 - Harry Frazee, sells Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M1924-12-26 -Judy Garland, 2½, billed as Baby Frances, makes her show business debut1928-06-24 - With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada.1929-06-15 - 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch1933-04-01 - Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businessesActress Judy Garland1942-06-04 - Capitol Record Co opens for business1953-02-20 - US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling1953-11-19 - US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business1958-12-03 - Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses1960-10-25 - Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses1961-10-14 - "How to Succeed in Business" opens at 46th St NYC for 1415 perfs1962-04-16 - Brazil nationalizes US businesses1962-09-09 - Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses1965-03-06 - "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs1971-09-02 - NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business1972-05-26 - The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.1981-06-25 - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.1981-08-10 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business1986-01-09 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.1990-01-09 - US Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses1991-01-18 - Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.1992-07-02 - Braniff Airlines goes out of business1993-05-13 - 6th annual business person run held in Wall Street42nd US President Bill Clinton1996-05-28 - U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.1998-09-15 - With the landmark merger of WorldCom and MCI Communications completed the day prior, the new MCI WorldCom opens its doors for business.2000-12-28 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.2007-09-17 - AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.